Last evening I was invited to attend an event at Buchholz High School. The occasion was the Installation of Officers and Member Induction to the Academy of Entrepreneurship, a magnet program within the Alachua County District School system. In addition, new officers were presented for those students involved with DECA. For those of you unfamiliar …
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Bracing for the College Tuition Storm
With the economy in the doldrums and the long-term outlook for the US stock market looking more restrained than it has in the recent past, parents and grandparents are asking my advice about the problems associated with paying for their children’s college education. Fueled by a sense of desperation brought on by skyrocketing college costs, …
Is College a Waste of Money?
I really don't know the answer to this question but it has been asked more frequently than I can remember during the last couple of years. I do know that it takes a lot of money to complete a four year degree, that the traditional sources of funding are increasingly a problem for many families, …
Parents’ College Savings Falling Far Short of Goals
When you finish the comments below, be sure to visit the tab above called CollegeMoneyNow. There you will find a short presentation on this topic that I created to help you solve this problem. According to a study released Tuesday by Fidelity Investments, parents are ill-prepared to meet tuition costs, with their savings likely to …
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Ch. 3 – CollegeMoneyNow – Help With College Funding
Given all the media coverage of skyrocketing college costs, you would think that parents would have a good grasp of the cost of an undergraduate education for their children and how they are going to pay for it. I don’t think they do. For many families, financing the cost of college remains a mystery. The …
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Something Troubles Me
Ever since I took Economics 101 some 42 years ago, I have understood that "interest", in the financial sense, was the price you paid for the use of someone else's money. If you had money, and someone else wanted it, you could charge "interest" and in time, you would get back what you loaned to …
Is College a Waste of Money?
In an unusual mid-month commentary, PIMCO chairman Bill Gross says fiscal balance alone will not likely produce 20 million jobs over the next decade. He said the government must re-think how it approaches job creation, and said that a college education was a waste of money. “It is becoming obvious that the 2012 election will …
Find Free Money to Pay for College – Ch. 2
By now I hope you have found the video presentation under the CollegeMoneyNow.info tab above. If you haven’t, take a few minutes and explore this idea. I’m going to write today about the college process itself. Unknown to parents and students, colleges accept far more students than they can admit. For example, if a college …
The Truth About the Economy…
Robert Reich is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. He has written thirteen books, including The Work of Nations, Locked in the Cabinet, Supercapitalism, and his most recent book, Aftershock. One can …
Top 10 Worst Tax States for Retirees
Some states offer attractive tax benefits for retirees, others don’t. Kiplinger runs through the worst (or "tax hells," as the magazine bluntly states). Many, surprisingly, are in the Northeast United States. If you are looking for an inexpensive place to settle down following a life long career, you'll do well to avoid the following states. …
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